My head was pounding hard when I woke up in the morning.
My whole body ached .
I just had the first day of my work , but I already felt like taking another vacation.
At times like this I craved coffee like a blood thirsty vampire out in the full moon to eat .
When I walked out , I found Rain with dark eyebags. She gave me a half hearted wave.
It was another unwritten rule in our dorm. That we did not talk in the morning. It was already an honor to receive a wave from my half-asleep team mates .
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The only person who looked decent was unexpectedly my brother .
As he watched me making a jug of universal unhealthy addiction -a.k.a coffee .
" You know at this rate if you cut yourself you are going to bleed coffee ."
I rolled my eyes . Thank God , that our new manager Leila was late today . She would have choked me to death for drinking this jug of ' biohazard ' ( her words , not mine ) all by myself.
So I should enjoy it as long as I could . I was well aware of how coffee would get banned again in my life.
" When you are done ,we need to talk ," Jasper sounded anxious .
I went to sit beside my brother . I could not talk much in the morning, but I could give him some company.
Jasper started speaking after sometimes," The Anderson has hired a lawyer for the us. There will be a court case for making me official guardian of our mother ."
" No , I should -"
" Wait , listen to the whole story , I got a call from your mother-in-law two days ago . Initially there was an agreement signed between two families that after marriage Anderson will take care of the loan for us . Mrs. Anderson will only agree to it , if I stand as the lead of the company," he finished .
My head hurted too much for me to shout in the early morning.
" You are nineteen ," I reminded him ," Do you think the board members will support you when they have worked with father for decades ?"
" Yeah but Anderson will officially declare they are going to support me as the new head of our company. They offered to send me back to abroad again to study , in the mean time lawyers from Sunshine will take care of my job , until I am twenty five ."
" This is not as easy as it looks ," I shook my head.
" But we have to take chances . I don't know how long Andersons are willing to help us ," he sighed," I know how humaliating it is for you to receive help from them . But I want to make a solid ground out of it . Besides mother -," he struggled for a while ," What if mother has to go back to our bastard father again ? I am willing to do anything to protect you and her ."
He had been struggling over it .
" I-I can sue father ," I offered .
" And ruin your career again ?," he snapped at me . I could not be even mad at him .He was right .
But I could not just throw him to the shark-tank if business world . They would tear him apart if needed be.
" I will figure it out ," I urged him.
He shook his head ," Last time you tried something," he shivered ," I still have nightmares of you lying on the hospital."
" You have had it worse !," I stood up ," Do you think that I could live with myself letting you do something this risky ."
" I am doing it , sis ," Jasper looked determined," I will do everything to protect our family."
" No ," I shook my head ," Drop this idea from your head . I will look into the matter first . If need be , I will do the work for Anderson in our company."
Jasper looked away . I could see that the idea was still in his head .
Of all the time , now this .
When I really did not want to contact Liam , again . This was happening.
" I have some classes now , we will talk about this in evening," I finalized the decision.
" Can't you just trust me in just this one ?"
" No ."
Summer , took entrance into the kitchen , yawning ," Damn , you guys are arguing this early in the morning? I am glad that I am a single child ."
The thought of having Jasper seat for board meetings at his age kept chewing me. My mother-in-law never had favoured me. I did not find any excuse for her to help us .
It was one thing if she wanted to swallow our dying fortune but other when my mother was involved in it .
What if Mrs.Anderson realised that dealing with my father would be easier than Jasper ?
What then ?
Instinctively I dialled Liam's number . But then I paused . I did not want to appear desparate to him again.
Fuck , as long as I had his number , I would keep trying to call him.
In anger I blocked it . Hell , if I could wipe away my memory of him , I would.
As I got into the van , to go to classes , I called Mrs. Anderson.
It was her secretary, that picked it up .
" You are to have a meeting at five in the evening at Avian Restaurant with the chairman," the secretary informed me , curtly and then the call ended.
Would it have been too much hassle to just not go this meeting?
I was already starting to hate this morning